What is good meat and delicious this holiday season?

Once I attended a buffet lunch at the office featuring a mixed group of teetotalers, drunkards, vegetarians, herbivores, gourmets, and everything in between.

So I walk up to a table to sample a little of each dish on display. At a point someone beside me said, "Uh-uh, that one is for vegetarians."

Of course, I was surprised to hear that - not at my acquaintance's words but because of the fact that we humans are supposed to be omnivores, like me.

I can eat any edible plant, whole, fresh, cooked, guacamole-d, baked, basted, broiled, or in whatever mold, mound, or presentation - if I want to.

The same goes for meat. However, I learned something new about the five healthiest meats to eat recently.

The top dogs - hee-hee, please forgive me - are as follows. Among the red meats, bison is healthier than beef - I bet my bottom dollar that those cattle rearers will soon bring down their prices when they also hear that even white-meat pork is better than steak!

Now, take a look at the following 2006 data from Sacha Tarkovsky, so that you, too, can watch your figure, while choosing your slabbed or sliced meaty 'poison' carefully: ".....

Beef Per 100g 136 calories 5.1g fat.......
Pork Per100g 123 calories 4g fat.......
Lamb Per 100g 156 calories 8.3g fat.......
Ham Per 100g 107 calories 3.3g of fat........
Venison Per 100g 120 calories 2.4g of fat........
Bacon Per 100g 215 calories 16.5g of fat .......
Chicken Per 100g 116 calories 3.2 fat minus skin.......
Turkey Per 100g 119 calories 1g fat.......
Duck Per 100g 11.2 fat......."


Did you know that, among the white meats, turkey is king of the heap - better than chicken - but can make you feel a bit sleepy?

Here is a relevant excerpt: ".... one 4.9 oz (140 g) serving of skinless roasted turkey contains about 0.25 oz (7 g) of fat......"

 That cold turkey surprise just reminded me of Tiger Woods current predicament with Elin. It has been asked what exactly happened after midnight when he crashed his car and his lovely wife offered to "....help him out...." with a golf club or two in his rear window.

Perhaps, quite unlike the Nigerian Itshekiri woman, who was said to have laced her husband's favorite meal of cassava 'starch' with oily sleep-inducing 'banga' soup whenever she wished to spend a few hours away from home with her lover....

Anyway, small fattier fish such as salmon and tuna are definitely in as the white meat of choice for those hoping to avoid colon cancer - unless the fish had a mercurial growth rate aided by mercury-laden waters.

So, after all, it may be just better to eat a little of the tasty stuff that you really like along with all the healthier stuff.

At least, that way, as a philosopher once said, you would really know what you were suffering from while reposing on your hospital bed....Ha-ha....